Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Saturday insisted that the controversial Finance Bill 2023 will passed into law despite facing opposition from the Azimio leaders
Mr Gachagua said the government is not worried because Kenya Kwanza Coalition has tyranny of numbers at the National Assembly to pass the bill without back up from Azimio coalition
He spoke in Kitui County when he presided over the fundraiser in aid of St Charles Lwanga Boys Secondary School, reiterated the bill, must be passed to aid government implement it’s projects
He dismissed the concerns by the opposition MPs saying they are meant to excite the public, calling the Principal and Catholic Bishop Joseph Mwongela to invite Wiper boss Kalonzo Musyoka to also support the school
“The truth is, and you know very well, even if you oppose, we have numbers, don’t reject something that will anyway pass. It’s good for the likes of Kalonzo to be taxed because they are not contributing 3 per cent to help schools.
Even if you continue demonstrating, government is determined to pass the bill so that the country’s economy can be accelerated, for example this school looks so bad when you’ve leaders around,” Gachagua pointed
Backing Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s remarks, Kitui East MP Nimrod Mbai, warned opposition leaders of face out should they attempt to hold any protests in Kitui County
Mbai, noted that he is equal to the task and holds enough shareholding in Kenya Kwanza Administration to flex his muscles to those who try to undermine government’s strategies to revamp the economy
“We must be ready like mothers in the labour wards, we must take drastic and difficult policy decisions to achieve what Singapore and South Korea has achieved.
We should ask ourselves what is that which developed countries did and left us lagging behind whereas we were sharing the same blueprint during independence,” Mbai wondered.
Nevertheless, Mbai, thanked his counterpart Kitui Central MP Makali Mulu for interacting well with the Kenya Kwanza leaders, appealing government to support projects within Kitui County for the sake of their cordial relationshipÂ